Tau gene mutations in frontotemporal dementia anti parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17)

Neurogenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 193-205

  Spillantini, Maria Grazia ^a   Van Swieten, John C ^b   Goedert, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia FTDP 17; Tau gene mutations; Tau protein isoforms

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME 17; DEMENTIA; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0034081234     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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